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Petroleum CS John Munyes before the Senate Energy Committee at Parliament, Nairobi, on Monday, June 14, 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard]
Petroleum and Mining Cabinet Secretary John Munyes has clashed with Turkana Governor Josephat Nanok over a recent report that rated the county as the poorest in Kenya.
Munyes is demanding a forensic audit of the county, claiming that for the last nine years since the devolved system of governance came into place, there was little to show in development of Turkana County. However, Nanok has dismissed the report and calls for an audit.
The CS, who is eyeing the Turkana gubernatorial post in 2022, said he was incensed by a recent Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) poverty index report that rated Turkana as the country’s poorest county.
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The John Pombe Magufuli I knew
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Today we have a guest columnist in the person of my friend, H. E. The Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga of Kenya
By Raila Odinga
I FIRST met Dr. Magufuli at an international conference on infrastructure in Durban, South Africa, some time in 2003. I had just assumed office as (Kenyan) Minister for Roads, Public Works and Housing in the National Rainbow Coalition, NARC, government of President Mwai Kibaki.
By that time, Dr. Magufuli had held a similar portfolio for some time in Tanzania. At the ministry, I discovered that I had inherited a bigger problem than I had imagined. The ministry was mired in massive corruption. Contractors were demanding pay – and getting paid – for works they had not done, or those done way below specifications.
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